58 Antiquities in the Gayd District. [No. 1, 



small tank or reservoir. Lower down on the north side there are two 

 more of these cavities ; in both cases the doorway is formed of granite 

 pillars with bracket capitals, — the entrances are blocked np with 

 rubbish. There are several others on this side of the hill, and on the 

 connecting spur between this hill and the next, there is a small temple 

 or altar, with a roof of granite slabs supported by 6 granite pillars 

 with bracket capitals ; there seems to have been a superstructure of 

 brick, but very little of this now remains ; there are no figures or in- 

 scriptions from which the age may be deduced, but it is probable that 

 they were, Buddhist, for the style is exactly the same as at Cheon in 

 which Buddist figures are found, and it is most likely that all 

 these hills, and also those at Durawut, were the abode of numerous 

 Buddhist ascetics, and Fa-Hian states that the hills at Raggae contain- 

 ed several hundred grottos inhabitated by devotees. 



Some distance to the south-west there is another cluster of hills, and 

 near a village called Chain there are several very large mounds cover- 

 ing several acres, and great numbers of granite blocks are lying about 

 in every direction, but there are no figures or inscriptions, and it is 

 quite impossible to guess at the age or description of the buildings 

 which must have existed here. At the mouth of a small valley, partly 

 where it runs into the plain, a dam had been erected for the water. 



About four miles west from this is a large village, called War. There 

 are extensive mounds to the south of the village, and there is a mud 

 fort with a pucka citadel in rather good preservation ; the wall is of 

 brick, loop-holed all round ; a range of rooms runs round the enclosure ; 

 and underneath there is another range of rooms evidently intended as 

 store rooms and as a refuge for the families of the garrison during an 

 attack. 



About five miles to the south-east is a small village called Mudun- 

 pur, on the Grand Trunk Road, and near it, about a mile and a half 

 to the west, on a spur of the hill is Oomga temple, which has already 

 been described by Major Kittoe in the 16th Yol. of the Asiatic Society's 

 Journal. Photograph No. 41 (Plate IY.) will give some idea of its 

 appearance from the south, and of the rock on which it is built ; the 

 temple faces the east. See Photograph No. 42, which shows its front. 



Higher up and on the same hill is another temple, but now in ruins : 

 see Photograph No. 43. Scattered all over this hill and the adjoining 



